 Alrighty, hopefully you guys have been enjoying our construction updates on 2022 and 2023. We've been pushing out content and doing some serious investigative work and I just couldn't thank you guys enough. Those videos have just been doing so well every day. All the videos we've been uploading have been doing a lot better than I even anticipated so just wanted to take a quick second to say honestly thank you, thank you to anyone that has come up to me and Craig at the park and said hi or to like thank us for our content. It really means the world. You wouldn't even understand. It's just truly amazing to receive any ounce of praise or even feedback at all. Even if it's not the best feedback, if you got feedback please don't hesitate to give it to me. If you have ideas too, people are commenting ideas and I am using them, okay? So anything you want or anything you want or need or feedback wise, just comment and I am listening. I promise I am reading every single comment. That's new for me too. Normally I'm so depressed I just like hide away. I am reading everything. I am trying to respond to everything but yeah. Let's get to the video. This isn't what the video is about. Oh my God, a minute in and I haven't even talked about anything Wonderland. With that being said, we all know that stage three is starting July 16th. What does that mean for Wonderland? Well, that means Wonderland can technically open at 75% capacity. What could that look like? Well, if they still have seating restrictions on their roller coasters and I'm hoping they don't, I have messaged the park seeking an answer on that and we'll wait to see if they have any information on the seating of rides but we do know that the park will be opening at 50 to 75% capacity and if I know a business they're gonna open to what they're allowed to open necessarily do I think they're gonna get up to 75% capacity based off of what I've seen maybe on weekends and Splashworks yes but I don't think on weekdays we're gonna see them actually be able to get 75% capacity they haven't even been able to hit 25% capacity on some weekdays. So with that being said, book weekdays avoid weekends. That's my advice to you. What could that look like? Well, we know that all the indoor restaurants should be opening. We know that some of the other attractions may open as well. I do want to let people know that there obviously is a staffing issue like there is everywhere in Ontario and everywhere in the United States. So things might not open due to staffing issues. So if you're at the park and you're wondering why a restaurant is an opening or a drink stall is an open or all the rides aren't open. It's just because of the after COVID groans of hiring and again they only had 30 days to prep and they had to do a hiring fair and training in 30 days blah blah blah I've already said this in a previous video. That is why the park isn't necessarily fully staffed which 100% makes sense. So again just be patient maybe avoid Wonderland if you're not patient enough to wait in lines or buy Fastlane that will help you significantly by the way this isn't a paid sponsorship but Fastlane at Canada's Wonderland is an amazing deal and we are hearing again I will not confirm because I will not put my 100% certainty behind it but if you have a 2021 season pass and you buy an add-on to that current pass that was purchased before this year any of your add-ons and your pass are good until Labor Day next year. So if you buy Fastlane, meal plan, drink plan, parking it's good until next year Labor Day. I would confirm with the park again do not take this as certainty do not make your decision based off of what I just said ask guest services or ask someone from the park to get that clarification for yourself. Whew nonetheless what could that look like? Well the lines are already pretty full at 25% capacity on some days like Leviathan, Yukon Striker isn't necessarily full queue yet but at 75% capacity with social distancing in the queue line it's going to look like a nightmare. Being full honest not trying to be negative or anything it's going to look really bad. So again avoid weekends. That's why I'm hoping that Wonderland being an outdoor attraction and most restrictions being lifted on outdoor activities social distancing will disappear on the rides and I think that they'll still be forced to clean but based off of what we saw in the states we could see social distancing on the rides actually disappear and cleaning of the rides could disappear as well. The vaccination rates in Ontario are significantly high and we shouldn't see any consequences from being outdoor in summer with COVID. I'm not a scientist I'm just going off of what we've heard and what we've seen so yeah I mean that's all I have to say about that. There isn't too much to talk about what it's going to look like. I think anyone that has seen the park in the last week can predict what it's going to look like it's obviously going to be busier. You're going to want to keep your masks on on the midway. I'm sure that Wonderland will actually probably change their mask policy. I'm not quite sure what the guidelines fully are for stage three outdoor activities but I can assume that the average person is going to want to wear your mask on the midways because it's going to be a little busier and the real like what we all really want to know is will social distancing still exist on the rides and if it does what rides and what not rides will have social distancing that's the big question and my honest hopeful opinion is that social distancing will disappear on rides. Maybe they'll be able to fill all the rows but they won't mix families or groups. That's what I'm kind of hoping for. So all the rows will be open but no mixing and matching different groups or different families. Indoor dining will open I believe at 25% or 50% capacity. I don't know the exact percentages but some of those indoor restaurants. I'm really looking forward to try some of that Middle Eastern food from Backlot so I'm hoping they open. I've seen the lights on. I've seen the lights on in Marketplace as well so I'm really hoping there's some sort of ability to open in there. I would love to be able to escape some of these heat dome days. But yeah, I'm definitely excited. Wonder Mountains Guardian is ready by the way so we could see it open but again there are some staffing issues just like everywhere in Ontario in North America this isn't Canada's Wonderland or a problem to Canada's Wonderland everywhere is having staffing issues. So that could mean that all the rides aren't open yet. I'm trying to think if there's anything else that I could possibly predict. Again if I'm going to give you advice if you're going to go on these days starting July 16th or if you're going on a weekend bring an empty water bottle for the water fountains they are turned into water bottle refill stations by Fastlane if you're able to totally understand if you're not able to if you're not able to be prepared to wait they are still in their first week they're learning they're making mistakes and that's okay we all do it anyone who is angry at a worker in their first week at Wonderland for being slow or making mistakes clearly has never worked in retail and hasn't understood that your first week or your first two weeks at your new job you've struggled shouldn't be visiting the park anyone who's complaining about anything take a deep breath trust me I totally get being frustrated we've all been in those situations where we've been somewhat hypocritical ourselves and lashed out or maybe been a little more upset than we should be I totally get that but be patient bring an empty water bottle wear sunscreen be in a group of friends so you have some sort of ability to socialize and if you don't bring bring your phone for YouTube and thing and just enjoy the day like don't go when expecting that you're gonna get on all the rides you're not if you don't have Fastlane go in expecting to do a couple of your favorites plan out your day pick a few rides that you want to do and make some other reservations you can have up to two reservations you can really have up to four but you have up to two reservations and once you get into the park you can already make your second reservation again so you know pick dates stay stay to with stick to weekdays bring your water bottle wear sunscreen go with friends and be patient that's literally the best advice I could give you if you are one of those people that are impatient like all those people in TikTok that just need to shut up then don't go to the park that's my honest advice this is the park right now is for people that are really looking for something to do after being locked away for over a year and I just thoroughly enjoy the ability to even just walk around again best advice most of us own phones practice some photography it's a really fun hobby to pick up I know nothing about photography and today I was literally just standing on Timber Wolf Bridge trying to take photos of vortex and you should see all the horrible photos I took but I sat there and I practice I got advice from friends they taught me how to end up taking these six shots so you know use your phone practice some photography like and go from there it's a really fun hobby to learn and pass some time with like as you're standing in line there's all these unique angles you can take photos of even if you don't have the best camera it's still somewhere to start and it's still the ability to learn but yeah anyways thanks so much for listening to this if you're still here you're a real MVP because we are literally nine minutes in and I just blabbered by the way if you really like our channel I suggest you follow us on amusement insiders plural on Instagram we're posting a lot of our photography that Craig and I had been practicing with and trying to get better with so it would be really awesome if you guys could go support us over on Instagram with our photos and all that thanks so much hope you guys have an amazing Saturday night and Sunday remainder of your weekend and thanks so much for always supporting the channel and watching our bids have a good one guys bye